Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.
Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.
Obedience to the law one has prescribed for oneself is freedom.
Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Article VIII – The law should establish only penalties that are strictly and evidently necessary, and no one can be punished but under a law established and promulgated before the offense and legally applied.
Article VI – The law is the expression of the general will. All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.
Article V – The law has the right to forbid only actions harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.
People must help one another it is nature's law.
The people should fight for their law as for their city wall.
The right of the strongest is the strongest wrong.
It is impossible for society to exist without laws.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
In time of war the laws are silent.
The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason...
Where laws prevail, there can the people prevail.
Happy the man who observes the heavenly and the terrestrial law in just proportion.
Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man may present his views without penalty, there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
A just king must be the first to observe those laws that he has himself prescribed.
What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics.
The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
There is a universal law that commands that we shall be born and we shall die.
No crime without law.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
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